Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Volume 19Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society., 1902 - Cheshire (England) Vol. 7-10, 12-21 contain section: "Bibliography of Lancashire and Cheshire antiquities" (v. 12-21 include also bibliography). |
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Page 298 - SOCIETY." 3. ELECTION OF MEMBERS. — Candidates for admission to the Society must be proposed by one member of the Society, and seconded by another. Applications for admission must be submitted in writing to the Council, who shall, as soon as possible after the receipt of the application, determine the election or otherwise of the candidate. Each new member shall have his election notified to him by the Honorary Secretary, and shall at the same time be furnished with a copy of the Rules, and be...
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Page 298 - Society is instituted to examine, preserve, and illustrate ancient Monuments and Records, and to promote the study of History, Literature, Arts, Customs, and Traditions, with particular reference to the antiquities of Lancashire and Cheshire. 2. NAME, &c. — This Society shall be called the " LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
Page 233 - Black rode, and had issue," &c. Of this Mabel is a story by tradition of undoubted verity, " that in Sir Wm. Bradshaghe absence (beinge 10 years away in the holy wars), she married a Welsh knight. Sir William, returning from the wars, came in a palmer's habitt amongst the poor to Haghe, who, when she saw and congetringe that he favoured her former husband, wept, for which the knight chastised her ; at which Sir William went and made himself known to...
Page 2 - Swarm'd overseas, and harried what was left: And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But man was less and less, till Arthur came.
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Page 225 - Christian kings, and no date ascribed to their reign. After which period, Oswald was killed in a great battle, by the same pagan nation and pagan king of the Mercians, who had slain his predecessor Edwin, at a place called in the English tongue Maserfield, in the thirty-eighth year of his age, on the fifth day of the month of August.
Page 226 - And in the place where he was killed by the Pagans, fighting for his country, infirm men and cattle are healed to this day." — " Nor is it to be wondered at, that the sick should be healed in the place where he died, for whilst he lived, he never ceased to provide for the poor and infirm, and to bestow alms on them and assist them.
Page 233 - Bradshaighe, 2d son to Sir John, was a great traveller and a souldger, and married to Mabell, daughter and sole heire of Hugh Norris de Haghe and Blackrode, and had issue,